To quote the late, great George Harrison: “You know that what you eat you are, but what is sweet now turns so sour”. In his lyrics to the 1968 song Savoy Truffle, the Beatle unwittingly hit on a truth that has only recently been confirmed by science. A study from the University of Minnesota has found that foods with similar nutritional characteristics can have very different effects on different people’s microbiome, the mass of bacteria that we all have in our gut. So one person’s food really can be another person’s poison.

What makes this so important is that it means that assessing what is a healthy diet could vary vastly from person to person – and this can even count for identical twins. So while you can probably rest assured that eating less meat and more plant fibre will probably do you good, you can’t assume that consuming a certain item of confectionery will help you work, rest and play, just because someone on the telly says it does.

At Pride celebrations around the world in the coming weeks, many will look back at events in New York that happened 50 years ago this weekend. On June 28 1969 a squad of New York police, raided the Stonewall Inn in Manhattan which was a popular hangout in the Greenwich Village gay scene. The heavy-handed raid developed into a riot which mobilised LGBTQ activists and helped kick off a global resistance movement which has achieved, and continues to achieve, so much in the fight against discrimination and bigotry.

Bigotry which, tragically, had led to the premature death of Alan Turing. The last piece of work Turing published before he took his own life was to model equations that show how nature produces its beautiful patterns from cheetah’s coats and fingerprints to mussel beds and chicken feathers. His work has even been used to predict the movement of gang members in Los Angeles.

This week we also learned how the Women’s World Cup is showing that the video referee might not be fit for purpose, the wet wipe “reefs” that are changing the ecosystem of the Thames and the scandal that has brought down four presidents in Peru. From our colleagues around the world, we read about a pilot project in Nigeria that is helping refugees go to university, the science of PMS food cravings and how working long hours increases your chance of having a stroke.

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